Happiness
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Aristotle

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Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Joel Osteen

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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.

P. T. Barnum

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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

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Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

John C. Maxwell

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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks

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You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Tony Hawk

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When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness — and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

Suze Orman

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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

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In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find — and I hear from other people that they agree — that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

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Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants — giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Guy Laliberte

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

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